DocumentCode
3395547
Title
Using Competitive Analysis to get the competitive advantage
Author
Farel, Doug ; Silverman, Mike
Author_Institution
Ops A La Carte, LLC, Saratoga, CA
fYear
2008
fDate
28-31 Jan. 2008
Firstpage
171
Lastpage
174
Abstract
When introducing a product into a new market, determining the current market players´ reliability performance may lead to a competitive advantage. Or, if your competition is using reliability as a marketing lead, does your product match their performance or do they have the advantage? Using Competitive Analysis, we can determine areas of strength as well as areas of weakness so that we can develop a plan for reliability improvement. Competitive Analysis often uses tools such as Reliability Predictions, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) and Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALTs) to compare your product with that of your competition.
Keywords
failure analysis; life testing; marketing; reliability; accelerated life tests; failure modes-and-effects analyses; marketing; product competitive analysis; reliability performance; Design engineering; Failure analysis; Life estimation; Life testing; Manufacturing; Performance analysis; Production; Prototypes; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Competitive Analysis; HALT; Teardown Analysis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2008. RAMS 2008. Annual
Conference_Location
Las Vegas, NV
ISSN
0149-144X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1460-4
Electronic_ISBN
0149-144X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/RAMS.2008.4925790
Filename
4925790
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